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Sony a6500 Complete Review (with a6300 vs a6500)

Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 + MC-11 + Sony A6300 (TechnologyMafia)
Zacuto Scissor Lens Support for FUJINON MK Zooms (Cinema5D).
Sony E 50mm f1.8 vs Sigma 60mm f2.8 Art (Mirrorlesscomparison).
Family Photo: When Photography Runs In The Blood (ALC).
9 of the Best Gifts for Photographer Moms (Explora).

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We have our own Facebook camera groups and pages you can join to discuss the upcoming new cameras in detail:
Sony A9 group and Sony A9 page.
Sony A7rIII group and Sony A7rIII page
Sony A7sIII group and Sony A7sIII page
Sony A7III group and Sony A7sIII page
Note: In groups you can post your own stuff like images, news and questions. While on pages you will read the specific camera news from SAR.

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Two days left to save $10 on the new Neptune software with our “SAR” code

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Til June 25 you save $10 by using the code “SAR” on the new Luminar Neptune software (Click here).

New deals:
Rokinon 14mm FE AF for $615 only at Amazon US (Click here).
Open Box Rokinon 50mm f/1.4 AF lens sells for $499 only on [shoplink 60057 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Grey imported deal on the A7rII is back on [shoplink 60059 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

Sony A7 cameras:
$200 off and free extras on the A7rII at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$100 off on the A7sII at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$50 off on the A7II at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$50 off on the A7 at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.

Sony A6500-A6300-A6000-A5100:
 $100 off on the A6500 at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
$150 off on the A6300 with 16-50mm lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon.
$100 off on the A6300 at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon.
$300 off on the A6000 Dual lens kit sold by Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$100 off on the A5100 with 16-50mm lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon

Full Frame E-mount lenses:
$100 off on the Zeiss 5omm f/1.4 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 70-200mm G lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 16-35mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-70mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 70-300mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-240mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

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Sony A9 Lens Test with the massive Canon 400mm & 300mm F2.8 IS

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If you do own the [shoplink 60168]Canon 400mm f/2.8[/shoplink] and [shoplink 60169]300mm f/2.8[/shoplink] you might wonder how these will work on the new Sony A9. Check out the video from Dan Watson to find out how it works:

Sony A9:
Sony A9 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, BestBuy. FocusCamera. Calumet.de. Park UK. Wex UK. Jessops.
Sony A9 with Grip Extension Kit at BHphoto, Adorama and Amazon.

World’s fastest SD cards are now in Stock (perfect for your A9):
Sony SF-G 128GB: BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. In EU: AmazonDE, AmazonUK, AmazonFR, AmazonIT, AmazonES.
Sony SF-G 64GB: BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. In EU: AmazonDE, AmazonUK, AmazonFR, AmazonIT, AmazonES.
Sony SF-G 32GB: BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon.

The new Sony FE lenses preorders:
16-35mm GM at Bhphoto, Adorama, BestBuy, Focus and Amazon. In EU at Calumet DE, WexUK, Jessops.
12-24mm G at Bhphoto, Adorama, BestBuy, Focus and Amazon. In EU at Calumet DE, WexUK, Jessops.
Sony 100-400mm GM at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, BestBuy. Calumet.de. Park UK. Wex UK. Jessops.

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Mr. Kenta Honjo no longer works for Sony

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SAR reader Federico sent me this:

Mr. Kenta Honjo, famous marketing guy from Sony Electronics in San Diego, CA. has just moved away from Sony to take a new position as Product Marketing Manager at RED, the revolutionary cine/video camera company, also in California.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kentahonjo

Kenta has been notorious for his role in many YouTube and Sony’s own social media channel videos, always explaining with great detail new products. He also was instrumental in Sony’s marketing of the new RX and especially the Alpha line of cameras in the USA, which was actually critical for Sony to have a true global success with their mirrorless models, especially since so many consumers, fans, photographers, bloggers/vloggers and Pros hold the US market as a reference for the industry, online retailing, pricing, product evaluations and for influencers as well.

Having worked at Sony myself, I have to say I’m rather surprised by his move, by I suspect his career outlook wasn’t in symmetrical proportion to his outstanding efforts and more than multiple responsibilities in P.R., social media, event planning, marketing & business analysis (historically a very demanding job within Sony to the point of requiring dedicated people due to the sheer amount of data collected monthly), especially considering the rate of business growth and pace of model announcements.

Anyhow, I thought I’d mention it since the guy’s so recognizable from all of his participation in product launches, events and social media.
He’s a great and hard working guy, so I know he’ll do great at RED, and it’ll be a loss for Sony.

Cheers!

My thoughts on this: I liked Kenta and I will surely miss him.

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Sony Tidbits…

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Rokinon Samyang Xeen Cine Lenses, NAB 2017

Sony Returns with the 2nd-Gen DPT-RP1 Digital Paper System (Explora).
Best Sony Lenses for Mirrorless Cameras (ALC).
$135 Cage for Sony a7R II & a7S II – SMALLRIG Initial Review by Jason Vong
Best Backpacking Cameras 2017 at Imaging Resource.
A6500 tested at Photoreview.
Sony Patent Infringement Claim Results in Investigation of FujiFilm Imports (TheStreet).
10 Things Photographers Can Do To Honor Earth Day (ALC).
Buying Guide to Projectors (Explora).

Join the new Sony Alpha Camera Facebook group.
To get news from our Forum subscribe that RSS feed.
To write a guest post on SAR follow the instruction on that page
I kindly invite you all to follow our RSS feed, follow us on Facebook and Twitter to not miss news and rumors!

We have our own Facebook camera groups and pages you can join to discuss the upcoming new cameras in detail:
Sony A9 group and Sony A9 page.
Sony A7rIII group and Sony A7rIII page
Sony A7sIII group and Sony A7sIII page
Sony A7III group and Sony A7sIII page
Note: In groups you can post your own stuff like images, news and questions. While on pages you will read the specific camera news from SAR.

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Now on preorder: Two new Sigma lenses with MC-11 adapter in bundle!

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Starting from today you can preorder two new Sigma lenses with the MC-11 adapter:

24-70mm f/2.8 ART and MC11 bundle at BHphoto.
14mm f/1.8 ART and MC11 bundle at BHphoto.

Also the new Zeiss MIluvs 35mm f/1.4 is available for preorder at BHphoto and Adorama (you need an adapter to use it on E-mount cameras).

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New deals:
You save $10 by using the code “SAR” on the new Luminar Neptune software (Click here).
Rokinon 14mm FE AF for $615 only at Amazon US (Click here).
Open Box Rokinon 50mm f/1.4 AF lens sells for $499 only on [shoplink 60057 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].
Grey imported deal on the A7rII is back on [shoplink 60059 ebay]eBay (Click here)[/shoplink].

Sony A7 cameras:
$200 off and free extras on the A7rII at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$100 off on the A7sII at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$50 off on the A7II at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$50 off on the A7 at Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.

Sony A6500-A6300-A6000-A5100:
 $100 off on the A6500 at Amazon, BHphoto and Adorama.
$150 off on the A6300 with 16-50mm lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon.
$100 off on the A6300 at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon.
$300 off on the A6000 Dual lens kit sold by Adorama, BHphoto and Amazon.
$100 off on the A5100 with 16-50mm lens at Adorama, BHphoto, Amazon

Full Frame E-mount lenses:
$100 off on the Zeiss 5omm f/1.4 lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 70-200mm G lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 16-35mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-70mm f/4.0 Zeiss lens at Amazon, Adorama, BHphoto.
$100 off on the 70-300mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the 24-240mm lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.
$100 off on the Zeiss 55mm f/1.8 lens at Amazon, Adorama and BHphoto.

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Dpreview apologies: “Sony a9 is sharper than we thought”

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SAR readers already noted that in their Sony A9 review the studio shots looked somewhat soft or slightly out of focus. Well Dpreview just issued this statement

The lens was not optimally focused….To make a long story short, we’ve re-shot our studio scene shots of the Sony a9 with the FE 85/1.8 lens, and they’re much sharper. We apologize for misleading any of our readers, but it’s a long story..

You can check the update studio shots here: dpreview.com/reviews/sony-a9-full-review/5

In little over a month the Sony A9 had to hold the pressure of overheating stories, banding and the Dpreview soft shots. Seems like at the end everything got clear and we can finally talk about the many good things of the A9 :)

Sony A9:
Sony A9 at BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon, BestBuy. FocusCamera. Calumet.de. Park UK. Wex UK. Jessops.
Sony A9 with Grip Extension Kit at BHphoto, Adorama and Amazon.

World’s fastest SD cards are now in Stock (perfect for your A9):
Sony SF-G 128GB: BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. In EU: AmazonDE, AmazonUK, AmazonFR, AmazonIT, AmazonES.
Sony SF-G 64GB: BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon. In EU: AmazonDE, AmazonUK, AmazonFR, AmazonIT, AmazonES.
Sony SF-G 32GB: BHphoto, Adorama, Amazon.

The new Sony FE lenses preorders:
16-35mm GM at Bhphoto, Adorama, BestBuy, Focus and Amazon. In EU at Calumet DE, WexUK, Jessops.
12-24mm G at Bhphoto, Adorama, BestBuy, Focus and Amazon. In EU at Calumet DE, WexUK, Jessops.
Sony 100-400mm GM at BHphoto, Amazon, Adorama, BestBuy. Calumet.de. Park UK. Wex UK. Jessops.

 

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